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Lewistown Superintendent, Ronald Mattson (Superintendent 1972-1985) discusses his work administering the Lewistown School District. He also describes his experiences as a fighter plane gunner in World War II. Ronald B. Mattson was born in North Dakota in 1924. He graduated from eighth grade and then was a truck driver. He enlisted in World War II in 1943 and served as a gunner and bombardier, flying 25 missions over Europe with the 8th Air Force, 351st Bomb Group. After the war, he was a commercial pilot and flight instructor. He received a doctorate in education from Montana State University in 1972. He was then hired as superintendent of the Lewistown school system.

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Anna Zellick, F.C.H.S. Graduate, 1935, University of Chicago, A.B. 1941; M.A. 1945. Lecturer, College of Great Falls at Lewistown College Center.